Re: [gnome-love] vicious-build-scripts

[George Karabin <gkarabin pobox com>]

Many thanks. I had attempted to rebuild libxslt, but I didn't think to
uninstall it. Now I'm going to go off and think about this chicken & egg
problem a little... ;)


On Sat, 2001-12-01 at 00:02, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 08:31:59PM -0500, George Karabin wrote:
> > On Fri, 2001-11-30 at 23:19, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:
> >
> > > I have been using vbs since April and have never had more problems than
> > > module dependencies changing as GNOME 2 developed. They are really nice
> > > and I recommend them highly, so if you are having problems, by all means
> > > post them and let's solve them.
> >
> > FWIW, I occasionally (i.e, twice since August, today being the second
> > case) run into problems of form that are only corrected by deleting and
> > reinstalling everything, i.e.:
> > 1) delete my vbs scripts
> > 2) doing a clean install of vbs from cvs
> > 3) then deleting my /gnome/head directory
> > 4) then do a rebuild.sh
> >
> > In this case, I'd noticed that gnome-xml had quit building for me
> > lately. I was seeing some errors that didn't make any sense, and rather
> > than try to make sense of them, I did a reinstall first (which has
> > corrected the original problem I had).
>
> Ah, there's another useful trick to know here: sometimes libxslt will
> not build or both gnome-xml and libxslt will make parallel changes that
> slightly break their dependencies on older versions of each other. So
> you build libxslt and it fails. Then you go around again and gnome-xml
> detects libxslt and tries to build some stuff that depends on that and
> fails also (that's not the trick, btw; that's just the problem).
>
> The solution is to go into the libxslt directory and do 'make uninstall'
> and then try to rebuild gnome-xml and libxslt in that order. If that
> fails, you 'make uninstall' both gnome-xml and libxslt, blow away their
> cvs directories (only! No need to delete all the modules) and rebuild
> them (which will include a checkout if you are using vbs).
>
> Last week, in particular, gnome-xml and libxslt were having some build
> problems. They are all fixed now, so if you can get your system to
> rebuild again, you should be fine.
>
> Some background: These two modules are a bit special, because although
> they are part of the GNOME 2 platform libraries, they also have a
> release schedule of their own, since they are heavily used on everything
> from Windows to VMS, so Daniel Veillard is constantly fixing bugs and
> making them build-friendly for about a billion platforms. They are also
> being used in some KDE applications now, to, so some bug fixes have come
> from there. In short, every now and again CVS builds break, but only for
> a little while.
>
> There is not really any nice way around this in vbs, since it has to
> install as it goes (so that later modules can depend upon the earlier
> ones) and if you get halfway through and it explodes, you have a
> half-upgraded and probably broken platform. The only real solution is to
> alter the install targets so that it flips between location A and
> location B every other build. But that is left as an exercise for the
> reader. :)
>
> Cheers,
> Malcolm
>
> -- 
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